A TikTok viewer had requested a gyaru look, and I have a LizLisa dress that was gifted by my coven waifu, so I figured, why not? I like Himekaji style after all!
For the makeup, I just directly followed a tutorial by @usatanipaisen1215 in Instagram! She's an inspirational gyaru, and I think she's an official gyaru ambassador or something? Not sure, but she had a two-part reel that showed basic gyaru makeup, so I followed it to the best of my ability!
Unfortunately I forgot a full outfit photo 😿 I was a bit tired after getting back from the hospital with my mom, so I just took off my hair/makeup without thinking!
First impressions of Gyaru make:
*It's got so many steps! And the contour is insane! As somebody who doesn't contour AT ALL usually, this was a lot of steps. I used eyeshadow as I haven't even got a contour palette! Lip contour was the strangest for me!
*Trust the process. I looked INSANE as the tutorial sort of jumped from place to place, so like my lips were contoured, but no lipstick yet, just go to eyes, so I was looking pretty cray-cray for most of the makeup process. She also drew the namida bukuro BEFORE the other eyemake, so it was looking HEAVY
*Some steps are reversed for me!! She put on powder white highlight BEFORE her cream one? I don't have actual white powder or cream product, so I was actually using Ben Nye clown white base makeup (from my shironuri makeup) and setting powder in white. I don't think they are meant to be reversed the way her products could be used, so some parts of my white highlights became patchy.
*Pigment matters! My blush is barely showing in the photos! And I don't have any baby pink lipstick. It's actually a bit difficult to find a good, pigmented lipstick here that isn't like... brown red. I love the Lip Monster line by Kate Tokyo but I can't find my pink color any more? And they don't have a baby pink one either!
*Eyeliner is not as difficult as I thought it would be. I used an essence cosmetics felt-tip liner, so it wasn't as fine as a brush tip, but it's the only one I've found that doesn't get dried up instantly over eyeshadow. It still struggled a bit over the white stage makeup, but I got it to layer up ok!
*Eyebrow powder is nice! Of course, I actually used eyeshadow, but doing brows with an angled brush is different for me. I usually use a pencil. I like the effect, even if the bangs ended up covering them for the most part! I also made my eyebrows thinner, and I think it fits my face ok still~
It was a pretty long process as I wanted to be very careful with each step, but it worked out I think! When I went to my mom's to take her to the hospital, she said I looked like a Japanese doll 😹so I suppose that means I at least passed the bare minimum!
I'm now more curious to try more styles~~ Thought of rokku straight away, as I really like that style (I even have a Glad News hoodie!) but was also suggested amekaji by kiringalblog! I will need to do more research on these styles.
No comments:
Post a Comment
please share your thoughts!